I've never had my Firefox crash on me in at least a year (both on Linux and Mac OS). But I have multiple levels of adblock, so maybe it's really helping. :)
You could also try to wipe your profile and see how a frugal Firefox without any addons behaves. (Remember to backup your bookmarks to a file before wiping!)
> Firefox is way slower when it comes to Javascript execution than Chrome
If you have specific pages where you're seeing this, please file bugs on Firefox and add "bzbarsky" to the cc list for the bug!
Thanks for reaching out; will do if I encounter a case. I don't run Chrome daily, and my personal experience with Firefox is good, including with "big webapps" like Atlassian products (JIRA, Confluence), but I often read the comment that "big pages/webapps" are faster on Chrome than Firefox.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12794971 for examples of such talk, but it's rarely precise enough to file a bug :/
- Firefox consumes way less ressources than Chrome. I can open 20 tabs it will consume a reasonable amount of memory.
- Firefox crashes way more often than Chrome. I get a crash everyday mostly because of a aggressive Javascript found in pages riddled with ads that abuse tricks in order to force the viewser to see ads ( Adblock can help )
- Firefox is way slower when it comes to Javascript execution than Chrome, no question and it looks like it supports less HTML5 features than the competition.
If Servo can effectively limit Firefox crashes then the investment is worth it. Because that's tne most annoying thing with Firefox. But the amount of memory used by Chrome is just unacceptable, along with spawning 20 processes just because they can ... Chrome is a memory and resource hog.